“SPIRIT-EMPOWERED WITNESS” | Pastor John Danganan

6 So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” 9 And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. 10 And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, 11 and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:6-11)

1. DON’T FOR SECONDHAND . (vv.6-7)

36 “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. 37 For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
(Matthew 24:36-47)

2. TO BE A SPIRIT-EMPOWERED . (v.8)

You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high. (Luke 24:48-49)

“But the Spirit of the Lord clothed Gideon, and he sounded the trumpet…” (Judges 6:34)

“Then the Spirit clothed Amasai…” (1 Chronicles 12:18)

“Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest and he stood above the people, and said to them,” (2 Chronicles 24:20)